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J. S. TOTTEN.

Culinary Boiler.

No. 96,509. Patented Nov, 2, I869.

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Letters ddtent No. 96,509, dated November 2, 1869.

- CULINARY BOILER.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and praising part of the same.

1' 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J anus S. Torres, oi Lebanon,

in the county of \Varren, and State'ot'Uhio, have invented a new and useful imprm'ement, applicable to Culinary Vessels; and 1 do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereoi', reference being had to the accompanying drawi'ngs, making part of this specification, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of the top of a cooking-stove, having my improvement applied thereto.

Figure 2 is a vertical section through the same.

Figure 3 is a perspective view of-the portable sink.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures,

The nature of my invention consists in a portable shallow vessel or sink, which is constructed with a flange around its upper edge, provided with a bail or handle, and adapted for litting'snngly into -any oueof the holes through the top of a cooking-stove, in combination witha pot or vessel, having an internal pipe rising from its bottom, and a shoulder formed on it, near its bottom, said pot or vessel being adapted to rest' upon and to enter partly into said sink, so that during the process of cooking on top of a stove, the bottom of the pot will not bcexposed to or injured by the direct action of the tire as will behereinafter explained.

To enable others skilled in the art to understand my invention, 1 wiltdescribe its construction and operation.

In the accompanying drawings- A represents the topplate of acooking-stove, through whi h holes are made, in the usual manner, for receiving culinary vessels, two of which are represented in fig. 1, covered by plates a a.

B represents a shallow sink, which is constructed with an annular flange upon its upper edge, that rests snugly upon the top plateot' the store, when the sink is in place, in one of the holes thereof, and prevents the escape of smoke or gas from the stove.

This sink B, which is provided witha bail, b, may be made circular, elliptical, or other shape, according to the shape of the hole into which it is designed to fit.

0 represents a boiler or steamer, which is provided with a cover, 0', and c, and which is constructed with a reduced bottom, leaving, att', an annular shoulder,

\vhicl1,\vhen-tl1e boiler C is in its place, rests upon the upper flanged edge of the sink B, as shown in fig.

From the. centre of the bottom of the boiler C, a tube, 1), rises, and tapers toward its upper end, through which tube steam rises from the water in the sink B, and thus enters the boiler 0, near its upper end.

In fig. 2, I have represented abasket, E, constructed with a bail, and a central tube, 0 and applied withp in the boiler G. This basket may he made of open wire-work, or perforated sheet-metal, and it is designed for containing vegetables, and admitting of their ready removal from the boiler, without the necessity of removing the bbilerfroiii the stove, or the water from p the boiler.

Steamers, for cooking, have been used before my in vention, which consisted of two separable vessels, with a counnnnication between thcm,.the lower one to containwater, and the upper one'to contain the articles to be steamed.

I am also aware that stoves have beeri constructed avith permanent plates'or shields between the tops of the ovens and the tops of the stoves, for protecting the bottoms of culinary vessels from injury by the tire, and I do not claim such contrivauces as my iuventicn.

I have invented a shallow wter-receiving sink, adapted for being received by the culinary holes through the top of a stove, and to serve vas a shield for protecting the bottoms of boilers from the direct action \of the tire; also, for containing water, which will-'generatesteam for cooking articles put into the vessel 0.

These tanks .13 may be used instead of the covers; a a, or in conjunction therewith, and while they allow the bottom ofa vessel to extend through and beneath the top plate of a stove, they'efiectually shield such bottom.

Having described my invention,

\Vhat I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The vessel 0, constructed as described, in combination-with a tank, B, substantially ';lS (ltSGl'ib6ll.

JAMES S. TO'lTEN.

Witnesses:

DAVID ALLEN, WM. W. Wilson. 

